METER MADE
grandpa_shig
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yeah, so i just ran into the meter made dood of pico. he basically runs up and down the block doctoring up the meters so they FAIL and noone has to pay on the block. dude is a real community servant. thanks meter dude!!!
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this guys sounds pretty awesome. i dont get what he does exactly? how does he make this happen?
oh yeah, that happens here too. but the meter made dude is a real prince because he is doing a civic duty for the people of the city. not just gettting some corn for his own stupid pockets.
i couldnt really tell but he was basically going on down the line sticking somehting in the coin slots.
in the south of market area of san francisco, the kids at the community center on 6th and mission used to make a run of the block doing this to the meters in sf. but that was a pretty easy hack or whatever cuz sf still had them old coin dial jobbies u know like the types of shits that are on the m&m machine at the front of the grocery store.
yeah, but this dude is working on some digital meters out here. and he makes it so the digital readout on the meter flashes red and read FAIL. which means the LADOT dudes will drive right past ur car.
hmm, seems like this wouldnt work right. in my city, you get a ticket if you park at a broken meter.
Damn, that's cold.
speaking of SF meters, nowadays we got the digital readouts and shit.
but have you ever noticed how some of them have little card slots next to the coin slots? like you can get a parking meter debit card somewhere and use it at the meters. but I've never seen/heard of such a card. what it do?
nah in SF you are supposed to have the right to park there, subject to the maximum time limit on the meter.
FREE PARKING FOR DAYZ.
I believe this is correct.
"A broken meter will not allow you to put money in it, thereby causing you to get a ticket that the Parking Violations office often dismisses after you get said ticket. Parking in a spot with a broken meter is something beyond your control. Even the Bureau says that the city is well aware that there are many broken meters and a limited amount of spaces to park in, and so they happily encourage parkers afflicted by the "wait and debate" disease (that often hits drivers debating if it's really worth parking in front of a broken meter) to just go ahead and park there.
The bottom line is this, people -- it is totally 100% legal to park in front of a broken meter and not put any money in. You just may get a ticket. And you just may have to fight it. And you'll probably win."
http://www.laist.com/2005/05/03/laists_solved_mysteries_broken_parking_meters.php
YES. that was rad.
remember that clown that would go around town and feed peoples meters so that they never ran out. The city wasn't making any money so they made the clown stop, but I don't see how he was breaking any laws.
That clown was a hero.
LOL @ writing appeal letters for parking citations.
It's kind of like Fast Trak or somewhat like a Fast Pass. It's a pre-pay card that you can use at spaces that have those slots. I'm imagining most of those spaces are downtown in the financial area. It says there are "23,000 single-space and 250 multi-space electronic meters in San Francisco."
http://www.sfmta.com/cms/pmeter/parkingcard.htm
not a bad idea really. If you park in pay spaces a lot you wouldn't have to worry about change.
I'd also like to add that a quarter will get you like 12 minutes or less in San Francisco. In South San Francisco a quarter gets you something like 40 minutes. Maybe 30 minutes. For about two weeks during the holidays all of the meters had cards inside of them that read "Happy Holidays, Park free for two hours." One of the benefits of living in a smaller city.
But when we went to pay the 40 bucks, my wife noticed that they mistyped our license plate (they put a double A and there's only one) and next to VIN, it said, "COULD NOT READ VIN."
No need to pay that one.
it's a Christmas miracle!!!
or maybe meter dude/dudette had a bit of the x-mas spirit in them.
Here in Houston, I've witnessed them standing in front of meters waiting for them to expire so they can write tickets the second they do. They don't give a shit if the meters are broken, you park there and you're getting a ticket.
Why is that funny? It's worked for me several times.
A) Seems like a lot of effort for a $15-20 ticket that doesn't affect your record or insurance.
B) Every state I have lived in, you just go to the traffic court magistrate's office and ask for a pass and they'll do it a couple times for you.
Really? Wow. That's some bogus shit.
not in cali. All of the tickets I've gotten were at least $40.
$5 here.
I'd never pay another Frickin' meter in my life if that was how much a ticket was in Texas.